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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

collection, and also all tax bills which he had been unable to

collect by reason of the property assessed being in the hands

of the court in pending litigation, and shall at that time be en-

titled to receive an allowance for the same in his final settle-

ment to be made at that time ; and the clerk to the County Com-

Affecting

missioners shall forthwith file all bills affecting property in

property.

the hands of the court in the proper pending cases so that

when said tax bills are payable they may be collected by the

clerk to the County Commissioners from the trustee or other

officer of the court having charge of the funds in such case

or cases.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 446.

AN ACT to incorporate the Independent Citizens' Union or

Maryland.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That John Tjarks, George Kirchenhofer, August Roeder,

August F. Trappe, Henry Hofferbert, Henry C. Von Heine,

Frederick W. Wehrenberg, Herman G. S. Denker, Balthasar

Prell, Henry Hermanni, George W. Kern and Karl A. M.

Scholtz, all of Baltimore City and State of Maryland, and their

associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a

body corporate under and by the name and style of the

Independent

Independent Citizens' Union of Maryland, and by that name

Citizens
Union of

shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable to sue and

Maryland.

be sued, to complain and defend in any court of law or equity,

to make and adopt a constitution and by-laws for its govern-

ment, and amend same at will; to make and use a common

seal; and shall have power to acquire by purchase, gift, de-

vise or otherwise, any real or leasehold estate or personal

property, and to hold, own, use, sell or dispose of the same

at its pleasure, or to mortgage the whole or any of such

property in any way and to any extent that it may desire

Without indi-
vidual lia-

without individual liability on the part of its members; and

bility.

generally to do all and singular such matters and things as

may be necessary to carry out its objects and purposes, and

to exercise the powers and privileges by this Act conferred

upon it.

Its objects

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the objects and purposes

and purposes

of the said body corporate are patriotic, educational, social

and beneficial; among other things, to promote good citi-